roaster
Americannoun
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a person or thing that roasts
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a roasting tin
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a piece of food, such as a chicken or a potato, that is suitable for roasting
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of roaster
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at roast, -er 1
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But as a coffee roaster, Seegers said he can buy from smaller growers who are fine with cutting prices and taking market share away.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Amid it all, she continued to run Canyon Coffee, the coffee roaster and cafe business Walsh co-founded with Casey Wojtalewicz in 2016.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Nestlé said on Thursday that it had agreed to sell Blue Bottle Coffee, a coffee roaster, to Centurium Capital, part of an effort to slim down and refocus around core brands.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
Blue Bottle Coffee, the Oakland-born specialty coffee roaster owned by Nestlé, could soon be acquired by a Chinese investment firm that controls one of China’s biggest coffee chains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
Each of them had gone from clucking animal to oven-ready roaster in ten minutes, give or take.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Still, more than half of 37 coffee roasters recently surveyed by Fresh Cup, a coffee-industry publication, said they planned to raise their prices next year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Small roasters don’t have the pricing power to buy coffee in massive volumes like the Starbucks of the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
The 650-hectare estate is home to a range of enterprises, from coffee roasters to picture framers to a pottery studio.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
Workers sort a pile of freshly-picked cherries — the red fruit that contains the beans that will be fermented, dried, and shipped to roasters around the world.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2024
The same mail who owned the hatchery for egg-layers where my father mainly worked also owned several processing plants for his roasters and fryers.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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